
Current County League Premier Division leaders Wigton Harriers crashed out of the Conway Cup at the first hurdle.
They lost out to Maryport Athletic following a 1-1 draw in normal time.
With the league committee deciding that cup games should go straight to penalties instead of extra time, it was the west Cumbrians who made it through to round two.
John Heyes scored for Wigton and Ciaran Booty for Maryport inside 90 minutes before Maryport won 3-1 on penalties.
Gosforth came away from Bransty with a superb 5-3 win and will face Maryport Athletic in the next round.
Jay Taylor hit a superb hat-trick for Bransty but it wasn’t enough as Jay Wetherill scored four for Gosforth and Andrew Bulman added a fifth.
Windscale Reserves finally got to play their first game of the season but came up short against Whitehaven Amateurs. Joe Martin, Lewis Keeler and an own goal gave Whitehaven a 3-0 win to set up a tie against Cockermouth in the next round.
Cockermouth cruised past Whitehaven Miners Reserves 9-1 with Luke Graham continuing his goal-scoring form from last season as the midfielder hit a hat trick.
Callum West, Conor Cooke, Mark Campbell, Mike Graham, Ben Wright and Macaulay Sharp added their names to the score sheet and James McNally struck a lone consolation for Miners.
First Division Cleator Moor Celtic reserves put in a fine performance as they overcame Premier Division opponents UniSun Athletic.
Lewis Close, Jack Conway and Harry Watson scored in the first half to give the home side a 3-1 lead at the break.
Dave Barnes deflected Shane Dorward’s free kick into the net for UniSun to reduce the arrears.
In the second half the game was much closer but a superb long range strike from Ben McCarron put the game out of reach of UniSun and Ellis Trotter scored a fifth from close range.
Celtic will face more Premier Division opponents in the next round when they host Aspatria who won 7-3 against Whitehaven Miners 1sts.
Andrew Trestianu hit four and Dan Pearson, Malc Graham and Richard Hudson grabbed a goal apiece for Aspatria.
Paul McNally, Ryan Doran and Bradley Glaister scored for Miners.
There was another upset as 1st division Carlisle City Reserves beat Premier Division Workington Reserves 4-2 at Gillford Park.
Josh Palmer put Workington ahead but City hit back with four goals from Kie Blair, Alex Cairns, Thomas Hickey and Bobby Dixon before Jack Dunstan pulled one back for the visitors.
City will now face Silloth in the next round.
There are no league fixtures this week-end as the Cumberland County Cup begins and the games are: Cockermouth v Aspatria; Eden Thistle v Wigton Harriers; Gosforth v Whitehaven Miners 1sts; Maryport v Silloth; Penrith Royal v UniSun Athletic.